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[David Roth]

This sounds like a good solution. Just curious, would this be a plugin or a
module? Can you direct which pages you want a plugin to be enabled like a
module? Might want to do this for more than one page with different
passwords perhaps? (Sorry if it sounds like I'm creating more work for you.
:-) )

David Roth

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris French <contact at chrisfrench.me>wrote:

> My vote would be a content plugin.
>
> if what you are trying to do hide a com_content article you could also do
> the same thing with menu items.
>
> You could in the content plugin check for a session variable.if it doesn't
> check if there are POST items.
>
> If so it checks if the post items are the assigned username and password.
> If so it creates the session and loads the content item if not it either
> loads a form instead of the content, or it redirects to something else.
>
> I would be willing build this plugin for a donation to some charity or
> something probably take an hour.
> On Jul 27, 2012 9:36 PM, "David Roth" <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My vote would be for .htaccess too. I use it to protect /administrator.
>> I'm wondering though, with turning on SEO, can that still be used if there
>> is no real directory to put the .htaccess in? For example, you create a
>> Joomla Article with an alias of foobaz. So that the URL of
>> domain.com/foobaz finds the Article. But since there is no actual
>> directory called foobaz, mot sure if .htaccess would be helpful in this
>> regard. Or am I overlooking something?
>>
>> Maybe something with ACL could be done for a specific page or two? So
>> that only registered users can access it? But doing that might be too high
>> of a bar for some users for Kenny's purposes?
>>
>> David Roth
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Scott Wolpow <scott at wolpow.com> wrote:
>>
>>> .htaccess is a great way
>>> SW
>>> On 7/27/2012 9:53 AM, Kenny Berwager wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to password protect specific pages in Joomla 2.5.6
>>>> without using the default Registration system within Joomla?
>>>> Since I really don't need to collect user data I'm fine with not using
>>>> the Registration system of Joomla.
>>>>
>>>> I found MosPasswort Joomla plugin but its old.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Kenny
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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